Galerie Grand Siecle presents Naruki Oshima’s solo exhibition and new album “Haptic Green” release. Long been dedicated to photographical creation, Oshima has held several exhibitions in Europe and Japan’s significant galleries, and his works were widely collected by public and private institution, including museums in Germany and Japan. When Oshima was studying photography in Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, he studied under the master of contemporary photographer, Thomas Ruff. After he came back to Japan, he held a teaching position in Kyoto City Art University and continued creating until now. Speaking to photography, he thinks images are just floating independently of meaningfulness, valuation, classification or integration.

This time the two series “Haptic Green” and “Reflections” will be exhibited in Galerie Grand Siecle, the messages behind which are waited to be discovered. Haptic Green People observe visual phenomenon ephemeral, as they push through to a dense forest, they experience a moment when you subtly recognize an object. They unconsciously use all senses while their eyes are ambiguous towards it. The visual phenomenon exists as a tactility of a touch, a part of intertwining leaves, branches or the trunks upon entering the forest. And it is apart from a total image as “green trees”; however, its parts are interwoven into a green mass. Reflections Oshima thinks when the optical dependency on the perspectivistic perception of the distance between oneself and the other is interrupted, the strangeness of the image will come to emerge. Furthermore, he thinks when the volume and perspective of an image is lost, it appears to people just as a mixture of light and shadow. In order to explore a new relationship with other images, which will no longer be dependent on the context of meaning, Oshima emphasizes the elements such as light, color and tactility which constitute a photographic image. That is what he calls montage.

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courtesy of the artist and Gallery Nomart, Osaka